Top 5 Worst Ways To Get Rowing Blisters

No one escapes blisters. They are the bane of our existence, as rowers. But we row hard and proudly wear our callouses earned from sustaining blister after blister. We bleed through the pain, bandage the damage, and go on because there IS no other way!

1. When you're a beginner

Your hands are ON FIRE with a pain you've never, ever known.

2. When you swap sides

You thought you knew what the pain would feel like because you've experienced it before. Not the case. All you know is sadness because you'll have to feel it all over again, in the OTHER HAND.

3. When you get a blister under another blister

Words cannot describe the hurt.

4. When you start learning to scull

New hurts in different places. And it just keeps hurting.

5. When you're in a training camp rowing 3 times a day.

You say this to your coach. Your coach does not care. Your coach thinks that sympathising with crew members experiencing the same pain will make you feel better. It does not

6. The smug feeling you get when you own a pair of rowing gloves and you no longer get blisters